Hillary Clinton continued to bat away questions about a presidential run at the New York Women’s Foundation’s Celebrating Women breakfast. The secretary of state, who was honored at the event, gave a lengthy speech, but when asked if she would run, didn’t answer, we’re told. But she did poke fun at the fascination with her minimally styled and made-up look. Opening her speech, she said, “I’m pleased that I got a chance to see my friend, Speaker Chris Quinn, looking so sharp and fashionable. Not that I pay any attention to that, as you know.” Praising the work of the foundation, Clinton also made an emotional tribute to her late mother, Dorothy Rodham. She said, “Even though we are living in a world of virtual reality, nothing substitutes for personal relationships. Nothing can replace that caring from one person passed on to another and another and another. I learned this lesson very early from my mother, and since we are approaching Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking about her a lot, since I lost her last November. And I was always struck at how, despite a life that was much more difficult than anything I’ve ever experienced — abandonment and abuse and just really unfortunate kinds of early experiences — my mother had a resilience and a commitment to her family that she worked hard on every single day. And I often wondered…how could it be that you would be abandoned by your young parents and given responsibility at the age of 8 to get on a train in Chicago with your 6-year-old sister and take her all by yourself to California to live with your paternal grandparents? How do you emerge from that emotional turmoil . . . that still today too many children are placed into? . . . I remember asking my mother, ‘How did you do this? How did you really survive without being paralyzed or embittered, being able to find from somewhere within the love that you shared and gave to others?’ And I’ll never forget what she said. She said, ‘At critical points in my life, somebody showed me kindness, somebody gave me help.’”